This indicator provides the number of emergency department (ED) visits and median length of stay (in minutes) for asthma. The length of stay is the time elapsed from the patient's registration to the time he or she physically leaves the ED.

Number of ED visits and median length of stay for asthma.

This QI reports the number of cases and median.

Visits from non-participating ED facilities, scheduled ED visits where Scheduled ED Visit Indicator = Y or ED Visit Indicator = 0 (as of 2011–2012), records where sex is categorised as undifferentiated (as of 2012–2013), records with invalid length of stay or patient registered but left without being seen or triaged (Visit Disposition = 02 from 2013–2014 to 2017–2018, and Visit Disposition = 61 as of 2018–2019), duplicate records that were identified using all data elements except the following: amcarekey, abstractidnumber and date_recorded.

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By triage level, visit disposition, age and sex.

National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)

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